
#574 — Laura McGann, Christopher Nolan
The Empire Film Podcast
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The Trinity Test
Christopher Nolan wrote the film in first person as a reminder to everyone making it that this was going to be a very intimate character study. A large part of the film is very much from Oppenheimer's point of view. And then I don't want to give it away. Christopher Nolan and I spoke about this in the interview. You've just heard, as he has said, he wanted the Trinity test to be a show stopper. And it is. It's a big explosion, but not like one,. you see, this is not Michael Bay people, nothing wrong with Michael Bay. But this is not just blowing shit up on screen. There's some really, really beautiful stuff
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